So…what is the Monday Poll?
Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of five more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007). I love reading your answers, and it helps me get my week off to a good start.
1. Your last beauty purchase?
I just ordered some metal duckbill hair clips because I’m on a mission to inject BIG-@SS volume into the roots in my bangs. (Side note: I got a blowout last week, and the stylist [Hi, Robyn!] used them.)
2. How do you keep track of your appointments?
El Hub and I share a Google Calendar, which works somewhat well, but sometimes we still tune out the notification alerts and emails. I’m thinking about also putting a big old-school calendar in the kitchen where we can write things like holidays, half-days, bill due dates and appointments and be reminded of those things day in, day out.
A few friends have recommended getting one of those extra large desk pad calendars but putting it on the wall, so I might try that, unless I can find a cute dry-erase calendar I can hang.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown?
El Hub, ’cause he knows how to talk me off the ledge.
Or I call my friend Cindy, who’s good at putting plans in place and calming me down.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito?
Uh…both?! I’m always starving when I wake up in the morning. For the bagel, I’d like a plain bagel with smoked salmon cream cheese, and for the breakfast burrito, I’d like it with mild salsa, scrambled eggs, sausage, potatoes (Mmm…carbs) and shredded cheddar cheese.
5. When is your bedtime?
Girl, don’t laugh, but I aim for 8:30. 🤣
If I’m not in bed by then, the next day’s gonna be rough!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Question time! Here they are to copy/paste with your answers in a comment. Talk to ya soon!
1. Your last beauty purchase?
2. How do you keep track of your appointments?
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown?
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito?
5. When is your bedtime?
P.P.S. SO LATE today because Connor is fighting a cold, and guess what? So am I. I think it’s a mild one though…
Have a great Labor Day and a wonderful week! 😊 May multiple cute kittens cross your path. Talk to you soon.
LeToya says
September 2nd, 2019 at 1:55 pmHappy Labor Monday Karen! I hope you are enjoying the day with your family 🙂
1. Your last beauty purchase? I treated myself to new makeup since I am finally deciding to use makeup responsibly (LOL) and hit pan/throw away expired products a lot faster than I used to. So I ordered the two mini Pat McGrath eyeshadow palettes, Season 2 bronzer and Peach for the Stars blush from Mented Cosmetics, A travel size of the Born This Way Ethereal powder in translucent and a large one in the deep translucent, a mini size of the Damn Girl mascara, and a mini powder compact/insert from MAC for the two blushes I decided were not too old to keep. Super excited for it all to arrive!
2. How do you keep track of your appointments?
Work-iCal Personal-Planner/notes in my phone
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown?
My two best friends!
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito?
Definitely an Everything bagel with lox and cream cheese
5. When is your bedtime?
I try to get in bed at least two hours before I am supposed to to read or unwind before I fall asleep. I end up on YouTube and stay up way too long!
Karen says
September 2nd, 2019 at 6:03 pmHi LeToya,
Happy Labor Monday to you, too! I loved reading about your makeup haul. I hope you find some gems!
Ewa says
September 2nd, 2019 at 8:07 pmOoh, I really want those Pat McGrath mini palettes!
Erica says
September 2nd, 2019 at 2:01 pm1. Your last beauty purchase? ABH X Jackie Aina palette and Amore Pacific Enzyme Peel
2. How do you keep track of your appointments? Calendar on my phone. I also use post its like crazy!
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? I usually come home to talk with my daughter😊
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito? Bagel and cream cheese. But I’d prefer fruit and yogurt!
5. When is your bedtime? I’m doing good if I make it there by 10:30
Karen says
September 2nd, 2019 at 6:02 pmI love that Amore Pacific exfoliator, Erica! It saved my skin when I was having terrible breakouts on my chin. Total unsung hero.
Chelsea says
September 2nd, 2019 at 3:49 pm1. Your last beauty purchase?
Aveeno Eczema Therapy Cream! I use it on my face and body.
2. How do you keep track of your appointments?
Usually my work calendar! I’ve had a lot lately because of physical therapy.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown?
My mom!
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito?
I’ll take bagel because I don’t particularly care for breakfast burritos, but I also prefer butter on my bagels!
5. When is your bedtime?
It varies more than it should. I aim for between 10 and 11 PM but I don’t always masked that happen. But some nights I go to bed at 8:30PM!
I hope you and Connor Claire start feeling better soon!
Karen says
September 2nd, 2019 at 6:01 pmThanks, Chelsea! I hope you had a wonderful loooong weekend. 🙂
Chelsea says
September 2nd, 2019 at 6:21 pmIt was good! Aerial class on Saturday and a show at the circus gym that night, I took a really good long nap with Jiji and Hettie on Sunday (great nap partners), and just sat around and relaxed today.
I hope you also had a good weekend!
Ewa says
September 2nd, 2019 at 8:06 pm1. Your last beauty purchase?
YSL #90 Prime Beige lipstick. I bought it online after seeing some swatches, I’m trying to not only wear matte reds.
2. How do you keep track of your appointments?
Increasingly I’ve been using the calendar in my iPhone/iPad. I still have an actual planner, but the digital seems to have become primary.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown?
My partner. She’s very nonjudgmental and calm.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito?
Breakfast burrito all the way! Eggs, potatoes, avo, cheese, and salsa! Yuuuum.
5. When is your bedtime?
Normally around 10 as I like to get up between 5-6, but this past week I’ve been staying up late watching Veronica Mars. I didn’t watch it when it was first out but have really gotten into it.
Syahidah says
September 2nd, 2019 at 8:08 pm1. Your last beauty purchase? Giorgio Armani red lipstick from the VIB beauty sale.
2. How do you keep track of your appointments? Google Calendar.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? My friend, S.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito? Breakfast burrito!
5. When is your bedtime? I aim for 10pm but it tends to be 1am these days as I stay up and work/write.
Susan C. says
September 2nd, 2019 at 8:31 pm1. Your last beauty purchase?
CVS ExtraBucks were calling my name last week! So, I got a pen eyeliner that comes with a stencil for the perfect cat eye (L’Oreal Infallible Flash Cat Eye), some Physicians Formula Murumuru Butter lipsticks, Maybelline color tattoo eyeshadows, two Almay Lip Vibes lipsticks, Milani baked Blush in Rosa Romantica, and Neutrogena HydroBoost Hydrating Lip Treatment.
2. How do you keep track of your appointments?
I just jot them down in the calendar in my smartphone, then set alarms.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown?
Either my mom or a close friend. Usually my mom is more dependable.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito?
Bagel and cream cheese.
5. When is your bedtime?
11:30….er, 12:30…er, 1:30, if I’m honest.
Eileen says
September 2nd, 2019 at 9:45 pm1. Your last beauty purchase? I bought a couple items from Chanel’s autumn collection: The eyeshadow quad in Modern Glamour and the topper in Carte Blanch.
2. How do you keep track of your appointments? I enter them in my iPhone and write them on a calendar that is on the frig.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? I don’t have meltdowns.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito? I’d definitely prefer a bagel but without cream cheese as I’m a vegetarian.
5. When is your bedtime? I go to bed at about 9:30 and read for an hour before it’s lights out.
Kim says
September 3rd, 2019 at 8:33 amHappy Tuesday! I hope you’ll both be kicking that cold quickly. Welcome to back-to-school 🙂
1. Your last beauty purchase? My Sephora haul which had the usual suspects plus the water sleeping mask.
2. How do you keep track of your appointments? Everything goes in my outlook work calendar that’s synced to my phone so I get alerts on my desktop and my phone. I’m not saying it’s perfect but it’s 99% better than a physical calendar for me.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? Depends on the meltdown. 🙂 If it’s very serious, the Hubs. If it’s just a very strong annoyance, one of my friends. The chosen friend will also depend on the nature of the annoyance – they all have particular specialties. HAHA!
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito? Plain bagel with veggie cream cheese please. I’m not a breakfast burrito person – I’d do a breakfast english muffin, croissant, biscuit or bagel though. I guess “sandwich” would have been easier to say!
5. When is your bedtime? I shoot for 9:30 but never make it. It’s usually closer to 11. Which is tough since I’m up at 5:45 and my preferred amount of sleep is 10 hours. Thank goodness for weekends.
Tatiana says
September 3rd, 2019 at 11:27 am1. Your last beauty purchase? A bunch of brow products from Sephora on-line. Got pencils and gels from Anastasia, Tom Ford, Benefit and Fenty Beauty. Been trying them trying to determine which formula, brand and color I like best. So far Anastasia and Fenty are winning.
2. How do you keep track of your appointments? I have a small Moleskin date book I carry with me.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? Depends on what the meltdown is about. Usually Dear Daughter or Dear Husband.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito? Coffee? I’m not usually hungry first thing in the morning. I can make it to 1 p.m. before I want food. But of the two I’d go for the burrito because bagels are crummy out here in CA.
5. When is your bedtime? Girl if I went to bed at 8:30 I’d wake up at 2:30 or 3:30 in the morning. I usually hit the sack between 10 p.m. and midnight.
Sorry this is so late, but I didn’t see this until this morning.
Suzanne C says
September 3rd, 2019 at 11:34 am1. Your last beauty purchase?
Several things from the VIB sale. I think the last thing was one of the Dior eye palettes.
2. How do you keep track of your appointments?
I have a planner I love, which was about $9 at HomeGoods. And we’ll put our dry-erase monthly board up on the wall in the dining room eventually, lol. It’s part of a cute multi-part set from Pottery Barn. The girls’ backpacks, etc. go on the bench underneath; it’s kind of our command center.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown?
Mom. She’s the meltdown pro.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito?
Everything bagel with plain cream cheese, please.
5. When is your bedtime?
I start winding down around 9:30 and try to be asleep by 11.
Jennifer says
September 3rd, 2019 at 11:45 am1. Your last beauty purchase? Last night–I found a Laura Mercier Editorial Eye Palette Intense Clays at T.J. Maxx for $13! Usually $48. The colors are gorgeous.
2. How do you keep track of your appointments? Haha, I’m not sure. It’s kind of a cluster right now. I have a giant flat desk calendar for work appointments. I keep track of all our doctor/dentist/dermatologist appts on there too and then I remind the hubs and the teenage boy when they have something coming off. But then I use my phone too for other things so I feel like I need to choose paper or digital.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? Depends on how bad. If it’s scary like the time I was diagnosed with skin cancer, I called my mother sobbing. If it’s a medium meltdown, probably the husband. He’s hard to reach during the day though when I’m prone to meltdowns.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito? Bagel and cream cheese with lox, sliced tomato and red onion.
5. When is your bedtime? It has been 10 p.m., which veers into 1030. So now I’m shooting for 9 and getting to sleep around 930. I think I need more though.
p.s. Hope your girl child feels better soon!
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Jennifer says
September 3rd, 2019 at 11:49 amHey can you post a link for those hair clips? I meant to look at Ulta over the weekend and spaced it.
Barb says
September 3rd, 2019 at 1:43 pmHi Karen! Hope your weekend was good despite the cold!!
1. Your last beauty purchase? – Just got my Colourpop delivery today. I ordered the cleansing gel and oil from their sister company, 4th Ray Beauty, the lippie scrub/balm combo in Peach Bellini and the super shocks were on sale buy one get one free. I got the Flexitarian highlight and Count Me In blush.
2. How do you keep track of your appointments? – Good old fashioned wall calendar.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? – Either hubby or my mom.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito? – Love both but I’d probably go with the burrito!
5. When is your bedtime? Work nights between 10-11 p.m. and weekends I usually stay up a little later watching TV or YouTube and it’ll be about midnight.
Stephanie Smith says
September 3rd, 2019 at 1:53 pm1. Your last beauty purchase? Eleven bottles of nail polish! I’m excited! From three different brands, I need new polish!
2. How do you keep track of your appointments? We have a dry erase board, it’s for a week at a time, and it’s great. I fill it out, the kids doodle pictures on it, the hubs writes notes to me, it’s efficient.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? My girlfriends. And we meet for Starbucks. God bless girlfriends.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito? I don’t eat breakfast, if I do, I feel sick. I need to wait a few hours before I eat. But I’d love a breakfast burrito, cheese, fried potatoes, eggs, bacon and sausage, and salsa!
5. When is your bedtime? I like being in bed by 9:30. But it’s usually more like 10:30 or 11:00.
My 8th grader is home sick with a cold today. My Senior keeps texting me that she feels barfy. I think it’s the beginning of the school year crud. I’m making sure they both stay away from me!
Gayle says
September 3rd, 2019 at 2:35 pm1. My latest beauty purchase is a Lorac Pro 4 eye palette and I really like it. Some pans are a little dusty but great colors and much better pigmentation than I am used to.
2. I use gold old fashioned paper calendars for Appts.
3. When I need to talk to someone, I call my daughter if possible. Or my husband or bff.
4. Coffee, coffee, coffee.
5. I try to head for bed around 11pm, but it’s often later. I like to read or goof around on my iPad, although I do have to get up at 6. I love the peace and quiet. 😏
Rachel says
September 3rd, 2019 at 3:07 pm1. Your last beauty purchase?
Two of the Fenty Beauty Vivid Liquid Eyeliner trios – Summer is basically over (especially in the UK) but I knew if I held my nerve and resisted temptation I could get them discounted and it’s paid off because now they’re 30% off. Winning!
2. How do you keep track of your appointments?
I sort of vaguely use Remember the Milk for personal stuff that is way in the distance. Regular old outlook calendar for work stuff. Otherwise I just…remember.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown?
I don’t really meltdown? I guess the person I call when I don’t know what to do is my Mum but mostly she can’t help with any practical advice and I just figure it out myself lol.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito?
Why not both? I guess the bagel and cream cheese because I don’t even know really what a breakfast burrito is other than maybe it’s a burrito with breakfast food in? I’m mostly imagining a full English in a burrito but that can’t be right. For one, black pudding is just wrong.
5. When is your bedtime?
Usually about 2am
Nadia A. says
September 3rd, 2019 at 4:50 pm1. Your last beauty purchase?
My last makeup purchase was the ABH Riviera Eyeshadow Palette back in March. I have not purchased any makeup/beauty products since then because my husband had a serious health issue in April and continues to be on a medical leave. Money is tight right now!
2. How do you keep track of your appointments?
I keep track of my appointments and my family’s appointments in my Erin Condren LifePlanner from http://www.erincondren.com. I love that I can personalize my LifePlanner every year with my name, the start date (always in July), the number of months (18 months), the layout (horizontal), and the color (colorful). Having my LifePlanner personalized and tailored to my preferences gives me more of an incentive to want to continuously use my LifePlanner.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? When I am having a meltdown, I call/speak with my husband first.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito?
I would rather have a bagel and cream cheese from those two choices. Although, my personal preference is two slices of toast layered with banana slices, peanut butter, and a drizzle of honey with a hot cup of coffee.
5. When is your bedtime?
My bedtime tends to vary depending on how tired I am that day and whether it’s the school week or the weekend. I am a stay-at-home mom with two young/school aged children on the Autism Spectrum. Therefore, I tend to put them to bed at about 8:30 pm during the school week. I tend to go to sleep right after my children most nights or I come downstairs to watch TV with my husband and then I go to sleep at about midnight.
Rachel Runyan says
September 3rd, 2019 at 4:52 pmI hope you had a nice Labor Day weekend!
1. Your last beauty purchase? I ordered the Viseart Dark Edit Palette from Beautylish.
2. How do you keep track of your appointments? My phone’s calendar. Everything’s color coded for each person.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? My husband. Poor guy. lol
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito? Bagel and cream cheese. For some reason, the idea of a breakfast burrito digusts me.
5. When is your bedtime? Usually between 3-5 a.m., because I’m an awful insomniac resistant to remedies both natural and pharmaceutical.
Mary Ann says
September 3rd, 2019 at 7:43 pmHi Karen – I hope you and Connor feel better soon!
1. Your last beauty purchase? Costco had a Thairapy 365 event this weekend and I bought all the products: curling iron, flat iron, and hair dryer. Needed none of them🙂
2. How do you keep track of your appointments? Bullet journal, outlook calendar, and text messages from the establishment. Really don’t like to miss an appointment.
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? Mostly my guy, but sometimes my sister since we have the same weird anxieties and only she gets it.
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito? Toasted bagel and butter!! Sometimes just a plain untoasted cinnamon raisin bagel. Dinner is where it’s at for me.
5. When is your bedtime? Actually, headed up to bed now!
Melissa says
September 4th, 2019 at 4:20 pm1. Your last beauty purchase?
Countertime Cleansing oil from Beautycounter
2. How do you keep track of your appointments? The calendar in my phone – I have alerts going off for everything
3. Whom do you call when you’re having a meltdown? The husband but I can usually wait until I see him – don’t want him to have to talk me down when he’s working. That’s his break from my crazy 😂
4. Which would you rather have for your first meal of the day — a bagel and cream cheese, OR a breakfast burrito? Bagel and cream cheese. Not a burrito fan
5. When is your bedtime? Getting old – 10 is too late for me